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Young's company took advantage of borrowed money to finance its rapid expansion and, later in life, he found it more difficult to deal with his debts. Also, he was not always able to collect money owed to the company. The properties at
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In 1795, at the
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around 1759. Y-DNA testing of his descendants also suggest
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